... say with certain conviction that Debussy's work carries us to an unexplored world of music, and is the most significant addition to the musician's art since Wagner reached the supreme point of his achievements. Debussy's genius lies in the expression of ...

... V Debussy's Masterpiece. Whatever the measure of success that awaits Debussy's setting to Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande in this country, there can be no doubt that the production of the work, call it opera or melodrama, or what you will, will be ...

... Claude Debussy at the Queen's Hall last week was of special interest, because it was, in a sense, the official recognition in this country of a musician who has done a great deal to develop modern theories along reasonable lines. In France Debussy is hailed ...

... MUSICAL CP Pelleas and Melisande at the Opera THE Covent Garden authorities have at last pro duced, in excellent fashion, Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande, an opera that, since its production in 1902, has generally been recognised as an extreme type of ...

... MAGGIE TEYTE The charming English singer from the Paris Opera Comique, where she made her operatic debut as Melisande in Debussy's celebrated opera. In this role she followed Miss Mary Garden, and achieved a complete triumph. Miss Teyte, who is barely ...

... searched no finer interpretative composer could have been found than Claude Debussy and no more sympathetic libretto could have been written for him than Maeterlinck's text. All Debussy's music is an impression and never that sort of imitation which made the ...

... Prix de Rome, Debussy sent them this, as if to show how nicely he was getting on but its audacity proved altogether too much for them, and they refused, politely but firmly, to have anything whatever to do with it. Compared with what Debussy has written ...

... ally as M. Debussy's has failed. It was the atmosphere of Mont- martre, the vivid palpitating actuality of the story that made the success of Louise, just as the rare, elusive fairy-tale, with its complex, subtle emotions, made M. Debussy's master -work ...

... the London Symphony Orchestra, whose directors announce an extra concert for April 7. The Man of the After Sibelius, Debussy after Debussy, Vincent d'lndy. In the past week we have heard the ur* composer's Po^medes Montagues played by Mile. Velnard at ...

... its atmosphere, just as remoteness is the essential quality of Maeterlinck's work. A capital little critical sketch of M. Debussy and his work was recently published by Mr. John Lane in his music series. ^\V\>WX\w\v\v\v,\vrt>1vW\W\WVW>,WW\'^ The Cloister ...

... in the shape of a French critic took me to the repetition generate (doomed, alas, to be abolished like all nice things) of Debussy's setting of Pelleas et Melisande. The hour fixed was one o'clock at two, some weird and beautiful chords were heard and the ...

... course, to be said. But she showed considerable intelligence, and her programme contained interesting excerpts, chiefly from Debussy and Rachmaninoff, two very interesting exemplars of the modern spirit in composition. In fact, when the former is rid of some ...